Helicopters are an incredible invention and if you are like me, there was a time before I became a pilot that I wondered just how a helicopter was able to lift off the ground and stay in a hover....
Category: Helicopters
When it comes to learning to fly a helicopter there seem to be so many models to choose from. To the untrained eye, a helicopter is a helicopter but the differences between them can really make a...
Many people hear and see police helicopters flying around their city at night but are they the only helicopters that are allowed to fly at night? Well, after spending hundreds of hours flying...
When you are sitting on a plane and need the bathroom, you just get up and walk over to the nearest toilet. But do the pilots do that or do they have their own bathroom in the cockpit? Do even small...
Getting lost in a car can be a fairly simple thing to do and I know we have all been lost at times, but when a pilot is flying in a helicopter there are no signs to tell them where to go, so how do...
Search and Rescue helicopters are a common sight flying out to stricken vessels in the open ocean and this posed a question from one of my readers recently about just how far helicopters can fly out...